To think the school have a responsibility to do more in a measles outbreak?

[measelsmumpsandweasels]

There has been a confirmed case of measles at our school. Several people at the school have children who cannot be vaccinated for medical reasons. The school are refusing to say even what year group the affected child is in. Surely the parents have a right to know?

The school have their hands tied. They can't breach the confidentiality of the child affected

It'll quickly come out though. All the kids will quickly tell the parents that its Mary that has measles

Why would the year group matter? The kids all mix at play time anyway.

Just watch your kid for symptoms, not much else you can do.

The school will be acting on the advice of the local Health Protection Agency. If they think there is a benefit in parents being told they will tell them.

They don't all mix at okay time. Pre-prep/prep/seniors all have different break times and areas.

What can the school do? If parents don't get kids vaccinated it's not the school's fault. Public health England will be advising the school on the outbreak and the school will be following their guidance.

I guess it is up to the parents to keep any immunocompromised children off school until such a time that the school can be considered safe(ish) again. I do understand why you're upset though.

It’ll be a cross contamination risk too, dinner halls, toilets.. anywhere the child or a sibling or a friend could’ve touched while carrying it. Might calm someone to find out it was seniors when their child’s prep but if there’s a risk they’ve been around it why would it matter.

And confidentiality for the family, surely if it was someone close to your/their child they’d know personally.

They can still mix though, surely they interact at times and share some of the same places?

(or because you pay do you think you deserve to know?)

I have a child with auto immune issues if something like this happened at his school I'd be notified personally (told year group and if it's his year chance of a high contact situation). I then notify the hospital in order to be advised of appropriate action. If a child has issues its up to their medical team and family to set up lines of communication. Other parents are not aware of what communication I have and I never divulge the information to others as its not my place to say. Family's at the school may have a similar set up.

The affected child could have walked past your child on the way to school and sneezed. Your child is then at risk. Could have touched the door handle etc etc. It is VERY contagious. All the children are at risk.
This is how my child caught measles before being old enough for the vaccinations.

Do you know that they havent told the immuno compromised children's parents if it is in their class or year group? There must be a procedure they follow for vulnerable children

unless there is a medical reasons the anti vaxxers are bloody selfish for putting everyone else at risk.
probably already reported and deleted for offending said people.

The school have a duty to keep medical information confidential and how would it help anyway? If your child is in a situation where measles is very dangerous to them, knowing that the outbreak doesn't affect their class isn't going to offer a lot of comfort. In any other situation, if the child's not vaccinated, that's the risk you knew you were taking and you're part of the problem.

Why the assumption the child with measles is unvaccinated? They may be one of the children who couldn't be vaccinated. Or may have been vaccinated and still caught measles

What do you want them to do? Close the school? Then all the working parents will start complaining they've no childcare. If you're worried about your child's health call 111 or your GP.

Can private schools ban unvaccinated children in the UK? Obviously not children who for medical reasons shouldn't be vaccinated.

My daughter is immunosuppressed and her school phone me when cases of certain infectious diseases have been reported. They obviously don’t identify the child but they do tell me the year group, particularly if it hers or her sister’s.

it is rare to catch measles if vaccinated, notimpossible but it would be a weaker strain.

I have a child who is being treated for cancer and therefore has no immune system (he was immunised as a child, but the cancer - leukaemia - wiped out all his childhood immunisations.) I have exactly the same set up as @Butterfly02 - the school rings me as soon as a case of measles/ chicken pox/ German measles etc. is confirmed, or even suspected, with name, class, yeargrouo and I can then let the hospital know and we take appropriate measures, or not.
I'm sure that your school will let the parents of immune-suppressed children know.